Tag: Middle East

In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 photo, Sabreen el-Tartour, of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, walks through a devastated area in Gaza City. From the first day of Israel-Hamas fighting on July 8, human rights groups operating in Gaza have been collecting detailed information about the aftermath of Israeli strikes, so far more than 4,600, according to the military, to lay the groundwork for future legal proceedings. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Both sides prepare for new Gaza war crimes probe

KARIN LAUBJOHN HEILPRIN · August 4, 2014 8:18 pm

Violence Slows in Gaza; Partial Cease-fire Ends

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 5:44 pm

FILE - This Oct. 31, 2007 file photo, shows a general view of the dam in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The rapid advance of the Islamic State group, which captured Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and declared a self-styled Islamic Caliphate straddling the Iraq-Syria border, has plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011. Experts say the strategy for capturing the dams is twofold. First, seizing dams and large reservoirs can be used as a military tactic. Flooding the terrain slows any possible encounters with military tanks and foot soldiers, giving the militants freedom of movement, if briefly. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)

Sunni militants target Iraq’s two biggest dams

VIVIAN SALAMAQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · August 4, 2014 5:23 pm

A Lebanese family wait to depart in a minibus on the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese army battles Syrian rebels holding town

Bassem Mroue · August 4, 2014 5:17 pm

President Obama is turning 53 today, and he was looking for some love Friday when he asked the White House press corps to wish him a happy birthday. (iStock Image)

What Barack Obama really wants for his birthday

Brian Hughes · August 4, 2014 3:28 pm

Photo issued by Britain's Ministry of Defence, showing HMS Enterprise as it evacuates Britons from Tripoli, Libya, Sunday Aug. 3, 2014. Around 100 Britons have fled from Libya and are on their way to sanctuary in Malta amid increasing violence in the north African state. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed an evacuation mission involving the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise had left its mooring near the Libyan capital of Tripoli and was on its way to safety. (AP Photo / MoD, Crown Copyright)

UK warship evacuates 110 citizens from Libya

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 11:59 am

Palestinian medics treat a wounded girl, at the Kuwaiti hospital at Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip on Sunday in an apparent winding down of the nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis dead. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

France: Gaza war may require ‘imposed’ solution

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 10:34 am

A Bad Deal

Daniel Halper · August 4, 2014 4:00 am

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Israel withdraws most troops from Gaza

KARIN LAUBJOSEF FEDERMAN · August 3, 2014 11:22 pm

An Israeli solder looks on the site near the Israeli Gaza border, where a man was injured from a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

National Security

US calls Israeli attack on UN school ‘disgraceful’

TOM RAUMMATTHEW LEE · August 3, 2014 8:57 pm

This undated photo shows Israeli Army 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23 from Kfar Saba, central Israel. Israeli army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 that Goldin was apparently captured by Hamas militants who came through a tunnel from the Gaza Strip and another two soldiers were killed. An hour after Friday's cease-fire started, gunmen emerged from one or more Gaza tunnels and opened fire at Israeli soldiers, with at least one of the militants detonating an explosives vest, said Lerner. Goldin was apparently captured during the ensuing mayhem and taken back into Gaza through a tunnel. (AP Photo/YNet News)

Israeli soldier thought captured is declared dead

IAN DEITCHKARIN LAUB · August 3, 2014 3:11 am

Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troops

Bassem Mroue · August 3, 2014 12:00 am